The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse |
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| Editor:
| Opie, Iona
Opie, Peter |
| Series title: | Oxford Books of Verse Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-282243-7 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1989 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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This universally-appealing anthology of fifty-nine poems illuminates the literary tradition of narrative verse from Chaucer to Auden. It includes Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott," Poe's "The Raven," and Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark," along with such twentieth-century classics as G.K. Chesterton's "Lepanto," Robert Frost's "The Code," Marriott Edgar's "The Lion and Albert," and W.H. Auden's "The Ballad...
More DescriptionThis universally-appealing anthology of fifty-nine poems illuminates the literary tradition of narrative verse from Chaucer to Auden. It includes Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott," Poe's "The Raven," and Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark," along with such twentieth-century classics as G.K. Chesterton's "Lepanto," Robert Frost's "The Code," Marriott Edgar's "The Lion and Albert," and W.H. Auden's "The Ballad of Barnaby." Abridgements and extracts from book-length narratives such as Spenser's The Faerie Queen and Milton's Paradise Lost add to the richness and variety of the collection.